Current Members

Yang Xu 许杨

Principal Investigator

yang.xu@iphy.ac.cn

Phone: 010-82648119

M916, IOP CAS

Education:
2007 - 2011: B.S., University of Science and Technology of China
Advisor: Prof. Changgan Zeng

2011 - 2018: Ph.D., Purdue University, USA
Advisor: Prof. Yong P. Chen

Appointment:
2018.06 - 2020.11: Postdoc Associate, Cornell University, USA
Advisor: Prof. Kin Fai Mak and Prof. Jie Shan

2020.12 - now: Associate Professor, IOP, CAS

2023.01 - now: PI of Group N08, IOP, CAS

Awards:

2023: Top 10 Emerging Scientists in China (2023中国十大新锐科技人物)

2024: IUPAP Early Career Scientist Prize in Semiconductor Physics C8

2025: “Rising Star in Science and Technology” Award from IOP, CAS (物理所科技新人奖)

Selected Publications

1
Layer-Number-Dependent Metal–Insulator Transition in Topological Semimetal Nb3SiTe6
Nano Letters (2026)
2
An all-in-one Hall rectenna with a bandwidth over 100 GHz
Nature Electronics 9, 140–151 (2026)
3
Pressure Tuning of Layer-hybridized Excitons in Trilayer WSe2.
Nano Letters 26, 1035-1042 (2026)
4
Link between cascade phenomenon and correlated Chern insulators in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene.
Nature Communications 16, 9516 (2025).
5
Emergent Wigner phases in moiré superlattice from deep learning.
Communications Physics 8, 364 (2025).
6
Electrothermal Manipulation of Current-Induced Phase Transitions in Ferrimagnetic Mn3Si2Te6.
Physical Review Letters 134, 256302 (2025).
7
Interlayer Fermi Polarons of Excited Exciton States in Quantizing Magnetic Fields.
Nano Letters 24, 7077-7083 (2024).
8
Observation of phonon Stark effect.
Nature Communications 15, 4586 (2024).
9
Giant Correlated Gap and Possible Room-Temperature Correlated States in Twisted Bilayer MoS2.
Physical Review Letters 131, 256201 (2023).
10
Observation of Rydberg moiré excitons
Science 380, 1367-1372 (2023).
11
Gate-tunable multiband transport in ZrTe5 thin devices.
Nano Letters 23, 5334-5341 (2023).
12
Pressure tuning of optical reflectivity in LuH2.
Science Bulletin 68, 883-886 (2023).
13
Quantum Oscillations in Graphene Using Surface Acoustic Wave Resonators.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 246201 (2023).
14
Growth of single-crystal black phosphorus and its alloy films through sustained feedstock release.
Nature Materials 22, 717-724 (2023).
15
Evidence of frustrated magnetic interactions in a Wigner–Mott insulator.
Nature Nanotechnology 18, 233-237 (2023).
16
Tuning Quantum Phase Transitions at Half Filling in 3L-MoTe2/WSe2 Moiré Superlattices. IOP News
Physical Review X 12, 041015 (2022).
17
A tunable bilayer Hubbard model in twisted WSe2. Nature Nanotechnology News & Views highlights.
Nature Nanotechnology 17, 934-939 (2022).
18
Coexisting ferromagnetic–antiferromagnetic state in twisted bilayer CrI3.
Nature Nanotechnology 17, 143-147 (2022).
19
Creation of moiré bands in a monolayer semiconductor by spatially periodic dielectric screening.
Nature Materials 20, 645–649 (2021).
20
Stripe phases in WSe2/WS2 moiré superlattices.
Nature Materials 20, 940–944 (2021) .
21
Correlated insulating states at fractional fillings of moiré superlattices.
Nature 587, 214–218 (2020).
22
Simulation of Hubbard model physics in WSe2/WS2 moiré superlattices.
Nature 579, 353-358 (2020) .
23
Tuning insulator-semimetal transitions in thin 3D topological insulators by hybridization and in-plane magnetic fields.
Physical Review Letters 123, 207701 (2019).
24
Pressure-controlled interlayer magnetism in atomically thin CrI3.
Nature Materials 18, 1303-1308 (2019).
25
Transport Measurements in Twisted Bilayer Graphene: Studies of Electron-Phonon Coupling and Landau Level Crossing.
Physical Review B 98, 035425 (2018).
26
Quantum transport of two- species Dirac fermions in dual-gated three-dimensional topological insulators
Nature Communications 7, 11434 (2016).
27
Observation of topological surface state quantum Hall effect in an intrinsic three- dimensional topological insulator.
Nature Physics 10, 956-963 (2014).
28
and dynamics of topological solitons in indium chains on Si (111) surfaces.
Physical Review Letters 106, 026801 (2011) .
29
Crystalline Nanojoining Silver Nanowire Percolated Networks on Flexible Substrate.
ACS Nano 9 (10), 10018 (2015).